HAWKER'S PLANE ON SHOW.
The battered Wreck" of the Sopwith l_"plane upon which Hawker and Grieve made their gallant attempt to cross the Atlantic, now lies”'ion 2 the roof garden at Selfi-idge’s. It has been ‘inspected by large cl7on‘ds of curious Ppeople. Little but the body remains‘. ‘The propeller has been snapped -off Short, ‘almost. as if the plane had rbraslretl on its nose, the exhaust pipe 1&5 bent double,‘ the planes have prac--Hiieally disappeared, and of the fabric it-most is broken away, that which reanains hanging on shreds_ A network ;-»of wire stays enwi-"aps the machine tin hopeless complieation,, while of the ’i)udder nothing is left but a skeleton §£ranlework.
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Taihape Daily Times, 11 August 1919, Page 6
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111HAWKER'S PLANE ON SHOW. Taihape Daily Times, 11 August 1919, Page 6
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